Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-18

The outcry against what is known as the pauper pension bill continues. The veto will not be overridden if Congress pays prop CT attention to public sentiment.
 Mir Krupp has appealed to his thousands of employees to stand by the Emperor and Bismarck in this crisis. They probably will. The more preparation for war the more work for them and their employer.
 new danger to politicians has made it's appearance in Washington territory, where women vote. At a recent election all but two candidates on the Republican ticket were elected. It is now said that the women knew that these two men were domestic ty- rants, and that party lines disappeared be- fore this fact.
 The expectation that the bill providing for the redemption of the trade dollar will become law has walked up the spectators. In Bal timore, for instance, the bullion brokers have from 125, ,0OO to 200, ,O0O of the coins, and have advanced the price to 100 cents. They have sold as low as 70 cents, and only a few weeks they were held at 80 cents and were advanced to e5 cents.
 The expense of burning people to death is so great that it seems as if the railroad com panies would be glad to remove the stoves from their cars wise precaution. In 1878 the Old Colony railroad in Massachusetts had an accident at Wollaston that cost the company $40, 900; in 1872 the Eastern rail road paid $550, 900 for the Revere accident; and the Ashtabula horror cost the Lake Shore road $670, ,000. It is estimated tha the White River bridge disaster will cost the Central Vermont fully half million.
 Paper is put to strange uses nowadays. According to the Gas and Water Review, pipes made of paper have lately been exhibited in Vienna, such pipes being designed to take the place of the iron tubes which convey gas and water beneath our streets. They are rolled from sheets of paper like fireworks cases and are coated on the inner side with an enamel the composition of which is a secret. This paper is also charged with asphalt during the rolling operation. It is claimed that these pipes will resist an inter nal pressure of 2,000 pounds; although the material is only half an inch in thickness, many uses will be found for them.
 Artesian wells are doing great things in Algeria. At recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences paper was read on various phenomena presented by the wells recently sunk in. Algeria by M. de Lesseps. The results are described of unusually suo- cessful operations undertaken in 1885, and last year in the region of the Shotts, where one well yielding as much as 5000 litres per minute of pure water at temperature of 50 degrees o., has already developed consid- erable lake ten metres deep, by means of which from 800 to 600 hectares of waste land have been reclaimed. Similar results else where give hope that large tracts now unin- habited, but which supported a numerous population in the time of the Romans, will soon be again brought under cultivation.
 President Hunt, of the South Boston iron works, makes an interesting contribution to the discussion of the merits of steel and cast iron for heavy ordnance. He is firm be- iiever in cast iron, and has made proposal to the government which ought, if accepted, to carry convic- tion with it. He agrees to make at the South Boston works three high power guns-a 12-inch mortar, a TO- inch rife and an 8-inch rife, both the latter breeeh-loading and of the standard weight and dimensions of the ordnance department. These guns he offers to construct at his own cost and submit for tests. If they stand 900 rounds of charges used in high power steel guns the government is to buy them and or der others The cost is about half that of steel guns of the same size. IF support of his theory Mir. Hunt urges that Rodman and Dalghren cast-iron guns have withstood pres sures vastly greater than it is considered ] safe to apply to Krupp gun of the same